Born in Brooklyn in 1966, Williams went to school to become an audio engineer and worked as a janitor at New York's Quad Recording Studios.
Clivillés and Cole heard and liked Williams' baritone timbre and rhythmic flow and they recruited Williams to rap on their 1990 debut album Gonna Make You Sweat as part of Clivillés and Cole's music group C+C Music Factory.
Williams contributed all the rap vocals for Eurodance act Masterboy's digital-only best-of-release "US Album" from 2006.
[4] In the late 1990s, Williams started to worldwide perform shows under the C+C Music Factory, or a variation of that name.
[3] In 2003, Freedom Williams acquired the federal trademark to use the name "C and C Music Factory" for live performances.